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About Cooking Pots and Computers

English version  |  Dutch version   December 16, 1998 WE ARE TOO EXPENSIVE!! This is a phrase I’ve heard several times within ZEB this past week, whenever someone opens the advertising flyers of our competitors. A complaining cookware salesman in the store...

Coincidence (part 1) – David Attenborough

NL versie beneden : druk hier   Twenty-five years ago, I was sitting in front of the TV one evening, mindlessly zapping through channels. The kids were already in bed, my wife was asleep, and I was simply flipping through stations. Then something happened that...

Why did the chicken cross the road?

English Version  |  Dutch Version   School teacher: To get to the other side. Plato: For the sake of the Higher Good. Aristotle: It is in the nature of chickens to cross roads. Karl Marx: This was historically inevitable. Saddam Hussein: This was an outrageous...

The Chimpanzee Theorem

English version  |  Dutch version   The Chimpanzee Theorem describes metaphorically how corporate cultures can emerge and persist, even when the original reasons for certain rules or habits are no longer relevant or known. This thought experiment demonstrates how...